Re: [Siglinux] rarpd problems on RedHat 9

[Kenneth Koym]

Recommend what you'd do with a laptop Dell Inspiron 7000 that went down 
3.5 weeks back. A dell tech said, "You have a shorted motherboard video 
card; send it to the repair depot, pay $699. I moved my info [3.4 gig] 
to my PC connecting the laptop HD as a slave then reinstalled it to the 
HD. Now the monitor works and the files can be seen but the XP ops sys 
tries to reinstall/I have only a copy; Am thinkin if I have to 
reinstall, to go directly to Linux; there is only 2.5 gig available . Is 
there a Linux that's recently issued which does not have to be updated 
immediately to run optimally? I.e., Fedora comes on 3 CDs but takes 
about seven/eight hours at AMC/ENS to download, then there is much time 
to get truly operational. I need to load and work ASAP without updating 
and wondering, will it run. Guess, it is normal of a new Linux user. 
But, this has been a tough recovery and then maybe the laptop is acting 
like an old fellow that is in his last week alive, having a rally before 
death.
Please take a shot at this; give me a recommendation.
Kenneth

shirish rai wrote:

Hi All, I am having some rather weard problems with rarpd. I have the line

00:50:56:00:25:1b vm27-sol9u5

in my /etc/ethers and

vm27-sol9u5     192.168.37.27

in /etc/hosts. I have a file C0A8251B in /tftpboot. I run rarpd as

/usr/sbin/rarpd -d -v vmnet1 (adding -e does not change anything).

Yet when the rarp request is received by the host
(tcpdump reports 13:30:24.102116 rarp who-is vm27-sol9u5 tell
vm27-sol9u5), rarpd does not find the ethernet address in /etc/ethers. It
writes the following in /var/log/debug
Mar  9 13:30:48 auseng040 rarpd[24756]: RARP request from
00:50:56:00:25:1b on vmnet1
Mar  9 13:30:48 auseng040 rarpd[24756]: not found in /etc/ethers
My nsswitch.conf file has

ethers:     files

The weardest things is that the same configuration on a different machine
(also RedHat 9) works.
Any ideas about what I should be looking at.

Thanks for any help.

Shirish.
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